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You should also be able to use the presence of the decay daughters as another way to detect forgeries.
by rtkwe 1y ago
You should also be able to use the presence of the decay daughters as another way to detect forgeries.
- philipkglass 1y agoCesium 137 decays to barium 137 which is stable and naturally occurring, so the cesium daughter wouldn't be useful for this case (non-destructive testing of sealed wine bottles).
- rtkwe 1y agoAh, inconvenient that it doesn't have a longer chain of gamma emitting daughters.